Nexon hires Chernin to adapt Arc Raiders and The Finals
Key takeaways
- Arc Raiders released October 30, 2025 and sold 16.3 million copies globally
- The Finals launched in December 2023 and continues seasonal updates
- Chernin Entertainment selected as primary producer for both adaptations
- Nexon and Embark Studio will collaborate with Chernin on film and TV projects
Nexon has partnered with Chernin Entertainment to develop film and TV adaptations of two Embark Studio games, Arc Raiders and The Finals, Variety reports. Chernin was chosen as the primary production partner after a competitive selection process, and will lead both projects alongside Nexon and Embark Studio.
Arc Raiders is an extraction-adventure multiplayer title set on a ruined, machine-threatened Earth; Nexon and Embark released it on October 30, 2025. The game has sold 16.3 million copies worldwide, according to Nexon. The Finals is a free-to-play FPS built around destructible, iconic-location arenas and team-based competition; it launched in December 2023 and has continued to receive seasonal updates since. Nexon named both IPs in the announcement and confirmed Chernin will handle film and TV development across the two properties.
Chernin Entertainment’s film credits include this year’s hit horror movie Backrooms, the Planet of the Apes reboot series, and the Fear Street films, and the studio has worked on TV series such as Apple TV+’s The Days of Darkness and Netflix’s The World of Chaos. David Ready, president of Chernin’s film division, called Arc Raiders and The Finals “ambitious global IP” with potential across film and television and said the studio is honored to assemble film and TV teams to bring those stories to screens. Nexon chairman Patrick Söderlund said Nexon, Chernin, and Embark’s creative teams will collaborate to extend the games’ creative vision into new formats and to reward the games’ global player communities.
Why it matters
Takeaway: Nexon’s choice of Chernin — a studio with recent box-office and TV experience across horror and franchise reboots — makes these adaptations a single, centralized production bet hinging on two active game properties: Arc Raiders, released October 30, 2025 with 16.3 million sales, and The Finals, live since December 2023 with ongoing seasonal content. That combination keeps both the games’ existing audiences and Chernin’s production muscle at the center of how these adaptations will be built.
Original source
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